Opioid dose and drug-related mortality in patients with nonmalignant pain.
By T. Gomes, M. Mamdani, I. Dhalla, J. Paterson, D. Juurlink. Archives of Internal Medicine, 2011
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Subfields: Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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- CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain—United States, 2016 (2016, result): “Two of these studies (19,20), as well as the two studies in the clinical evidence review (115,116), evaluated similar MME/day dose ranges for association with overdose risk.”
- The Effectiveness and Risks of Long-Term Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review for a National Institutes of Health Pathways to Prevention Workshop (2015, background): “For some harms, studies suggest that higher opioid doses are associated with increased risk (7, 13, 29, 42, 43, 45).”
- CDC guideline for prescribing opioids for chronic pain (2016, background): “In one of these studies (103), among decedents who received an opioid prescription, those whose deaths were related to opioids were more likely to have obtained opioids from multiple physicians and pharmacies than decedents whose deaths were not related to opioids.”